Compute Express Link – Enabling Your Next-Gen Data Center
Max Mortillaro attended the most recent Gestalt IT Showcase with Intel and now gives his thoughts on their latest technology; Compute Express Link. CXL has been on Max’s radar since early 2019 and it continues to impress him with the merging of their generation data center. He is most excited about the CXL specification that is supported for Type 3 devices, particularly storage-class memory. Take a look on the Gestalt IT website for more from Max.
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Compute Express Link - Enabling Your Next-Gen Data Center
CXL Will Be Truly Composable Infrastructure
Writing on behalf of Gestalt IT, Chris Hayner talks about Intel’s newest technology; Compute Express Link (CXL). He goes into detail on this next gen technology that is intended to connect computer resources in the datacenter together. Check out Chris’ thoughts on a promised composable infrastructure from Intel’s CXL.
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CXL Will Be Truly Composable Infrastructure
An Introduction to Graphiant Network as a Service
On the World Wide Technology website, Micheline Murphy talks about Graphiant’s presentation at the most recent Networking Field Day. Graphiant announced to the world that they are coming out of their stealth mode and are ready to show what they have to offer. Micheline goes into detail on their Network as a Service solution that is solving today’s WAN problems and gives us simple, fast, and secure reasons why you should check out Graphiant!
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An Introduction to Graphiant Network as a Service
Securing IoT Devices Silicon to Cloud With Micron’s Authenta
Sulagna Saha, writing for Gestalt IT, talks about Micron’s Authenta, a solution that provides hardware-based protection for IoT solutions from inception to the end of their lifecycle. Authenta is designed to keep IoT devices safe from notorious supply chain attacks in their journey from the factory to the cloud. Read her thoughts on the Gestalt IT website, and for a deep dive into the technology, make sure to watch Micron’s presentations at the recent Security Field Day event.
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Securing IoT Devices Silicon to Cloud with Micron's Authenta
Breaking the Cyber Kill Chain With Fortinet
FortiRecon; “an indispensable item to have in the security tool kit”, says Sulagna Saha in her most recent article on the Gestalt IT website! She talks about Fortinet’s FortiRecon solution that was recently presented at November’s Security Field Day. This solution is designed to help organizations obstruct threat actors at the pre-attack stage and will help break the attack sequence in the early cycle if they are already inside. To hear more about FortiRecon, check out Sulagna’s thought on the Gestalt IT website!
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Breaking the Cyber Kill Chain with Fortinet
Measuring the Current Day Blast Radius of Outages
Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha discusses the most recent delegate roundtable discussion from Storage Field Day. Delegates, Enrico Signoretti, Frederic Van Haren, Glenn Dekhayser, Gina Rosenthal, Richard Kenyan, and moderator, Stephen Foskett, stood out in the discussion of Managing the Blast Radius as System Components get Bigger! Check out Sulagna’s thoughts on the dissection of this premise and the brainstorming that occurred on ways to limit the scope of impact.
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Measuring the Current Day Blast Radius of Outages
NFD29: Cisco Manages Your Clouds
Pete Welcher is taking in the Networking Field Day event presentations from Cisco and the content they delivered on MultiCloud, Meraki NextGen Dash, and DNAC. In his latest post on LinkedIn, Pete discusses his thought on one specific are of interest from the Cisco presentations: Cisco MultiCloud. He goes into detail on the tools that Cisco is evolving and how they will simplify customers’ lives. Check out Pete’s LinkedIn for more!
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NFD29: Cisco Manages Your Clouds
NFD29: What Would We Do Without Opengear?
Pete Welcher was struck by Opengear’s presentation at September’s Networking Field Day! He wrote all about Opengear’s remote Out of Band (OOB) network access capabilities on LinkedIn and refers to them as a “product refresh.” Pete urges all Networking folks to check out what Opengear has to offer!
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NFD29: What Would We Do Without Opengear?
SFD24: Studies in Autonomy & ES[G]
Jim Czuprynski saw two unifying themes at Storage Field Day in November: Autonomy and ESG. In Jim’s take, Dell and AWS mostly talked about automation, while Pure Storage and Solidigm discussed sustainability. Check out Jim’s thoughts about all four Storage Field Day presentations!
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SFD24: Studies In Autonomy & ES[G]
Google’s Cloud Hyperdisk to Bring SAN Features to GCP
Chris Mellor discusses Google Cloud’s introduction of a SAN-like Cloud Hyperdisk to its Cloud Platform. Hyperdisk was previewed in September by Google Cloud, and is a next generation persistent disk type for use with Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You can read his thoughts on the website, Blocks and Files, and be sure to check out the Tech Field Day website to watch Google Cloud’s presentation from the latest Cloud Field Day event.
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Google’s Cloud Hyperdisk to bring SAN features to GCP
XFD8 Prologue
Michael Davis is attending Security Field Day this week and shared his excitement about the event in general as well as his thoughts on two of the presenters. He’s particularly interested in Cribl and Swimlane, and it will be interesting to read his thoughts on them post-event.
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New Generation: Solidigms QLC Offers 192 Layers and More Writing Performance
This article from Tech Gaming Report discusses the recent Solidigm presentation at Storage Field Day. They focus on Solidigm’s QLC flash and the potential for ever-larger capacity SSDs with faster random write performance and enough longevity to keep up with years of use.
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New generation: Solidigms QLC offers 192 layers and more writing performance
Figuratively Baggels
In this episode of the Chaos Lever podcast, Field Day delegates Chris Hayner and Ned Bellavance discuss our recent participation in the CXL Forum at OCP Summit 2022. Chris joined the rest of the Tech Field Day delegates at this special event and shares what he learned about CXL technology in this episode. And as usual Chris and Ned have lots to say about many other subjects besides!
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Low-Cost Storage for Read-Intensive Workloads With Solidigm’s Gen 4 QLC SSDs
Sulagna Saha shares her thoughts about low-cost storage for read-intensive workloads from Solidigm’s latest presentation at the Storage Field Day event. Check out her thoughts on the Gestalt IT website and be sure to check out the Tech Field Day website for all of the Storage Field Day event presentations.
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Low-Cost Storage for Read-Intensive Workloads with Solidigm's Gen 4 QLC SSDs
The Self-Service Upgrade Experience on Pure1
Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha gives her thoughts on Pure Storage and their presentation of the new self-service upgrade for Pure1. Check out her thoughts on the Gestalt IT website and be sure to check out the Tech Field Day website for all of the latest updates from this past Storage Field Day event on the Tech Field Day website!
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The Self-Service Upgrade Experience on Pure1
Safe, Sound, and Secure With Security Field Day 8!
Tom Hollingsworth gives the rundown on the upcoming Security Field Day event. The Security Field Day event will see presentations from Fortinet, Micron, HashiCorp, Swimlane and Cribl. Follow along on the Tech Field Day website as well as the Security Field Day event page.
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Safe, Sound, and Secure with Security Field Day 8!
Solidigm’s 61 TB SSD Hopes to Vanquish HDDs
Francisco Pires discusses Solidigm’s latest presentation of their new 61TB SSD. Read his thoughts on his website, Tom’s Hardware, and be sure to watch Solidigm’s and all of the presentation from the latest Storage Field Day event on the Tech Field Day website!
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Solidigm's 61 TB SSD Hopes to Vanquish HDDs
Top 7 Network Engineering Conferences Ranked
Phil Gervasi gives his opinion on network engineering conferences and why the Networking Field Day event is at the top of his list. Check out his thoughts on his website, NetworkPhil, and be sure to catch all of the latest updates and presentations on the Tech Field Day website!
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Top 7 Network Engineering Conferences Ranked
CXL Is the Future of Enterprise Hyperconvergence
After attending the latest Tech Field Day event Enrico Signoretti gives his thoughts on the OCP Summit and the CXL forum. Check out his thoughts on LinkedIn and be sure to catch all of the updates from the Tech Field Day event on the Tech Field Day website!
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CXL is the future of Enterprise Hyperconvergence
Measuring Sustainability in Enterprise Storage
Max Mortillaro attended the latest Storage Field Day as a virtual delegate and provided his thoughts on Pure Storage’s presentation of their ESG report covering the company’s sustainability policy. You can watch Pure Storage’s presentation and all of the presentations from the Storage Field Day event on the Tech Field Day website!
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